Bayes decision rules and confidence measures for statistical machine translation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3230, Issue , 2004, Pages 70-81

  Ueffing, Nicola ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ERRORS; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

BAYES DECISION RULES; CONFIDENCE MEASURE; EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MINIMIZING THE NUMBER OF; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 22944452128     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30228-5_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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